Chapter 21: Billy

"Youyou," Jian Mingjia asked behind, "what are you looking at?"
"Oh."
Lin You recovered and pointed to the window, "This puppet over here-eh?"
Just as soon as she deviated from her sight and looked back, the puppet was still sitting there, as if the one hundred and eighty-degree turn of her head was just wrong.
Lin You: "..."
How come one or two like to play this way, and the lanky ghost came with her back then.
The other three people came over when they heard her. Although they didn't see it turning around with their own eyes, they couldn't help but see such retro and brightly colored puppets.
"I was most afraid of dolls when I was a kid..." Jian Mingjia muttered softly.
Lin You glanced at Liao Tong.
The idea of ​​slipping the door and picking the lock or breaking the glass of the shop window was in her mind, thinking about the passerby teammate here, she decided to give up temporarily.
Her abilities are still a bit special, and it's best to leave one-third of the room in front of people you don't know. In addition, this is just the beginning of the copy, and it is not good to start rashly under the unclear background.
She looked up at the number plate, remembered the name of the store, and waved at it in a good mood.
I will come to play with you next time.
Geng Qinghe and Jian Mingjia noticed her small movements and couldn't help but mourned for the puppet for two seconds. And Liao Tong was still lying on the glass intently, getting cold all over by the thoughts that came up one after another.
"Could there be such puppets elsewhere," he said, "isn't this copy called "House of Puppets"?"
The most easily affected of the three is Geng Qinghe, and the corresponding picture immediately appeared in his mind, but Linyou even added fuel to the fire and echoed.
"possible."
She said: "The worst case is that there is no one here, only puppets."
It's called the House of Puppets after all.
Geng Qinghe: "………………"
Don't talk about it anymore! !
"Enter and go back to the car." Liao Tong kept touching his arm, deceiving himself or protecting himself, staying in a closed space with a second floor always makes people feel more secure-of course, this It’s a different matter if the act itself is safe or not.
Isn’t it about inheriting the inheritance? Go straight to the house and have a look.

Each person returned to each person's seat. It's not easy to find a house in a strange town, especially since I haven't asked for directions yet-I haven't seen anyone in the whole process.
After going around the town several times, they found the single-family villa that fit the description on the heritage document.
"Originally, the fastest way to clear the game might be to turn around from the beginning," Geng Qinghe didn't want to get out of the car very much, and dartfully opened the door. "Unfortunately, it will be judged as a negative game..."
"Then the evaluation is D etc."
Liao Tong took the conversation: "But it's not easy to say, sometimes those ghosts will come by themselves."
"...Don't ask me why I know." He complained.
Lin Youxin said that there is no need to ask. Generally speaking, it must be because he has personally experienced blood and tears.
The three of them did not say, and Liao Tong did not mention each other's ability. Everyone seemed to be tacitly observing each other secretly. Lin You guessed that the other party might not be a regular profession in the eyes of the public.
With the front door key in the document bag, Lin You took it out and inserted it into the keyhole and twisted it smoothly.
Before entering the door, she pressed the door switch.
It's strange that it's a town with no one, and the electricity is still running normally. Lin You watched the chandelier flash twice, illuminating the entrance hall and the stairs and living room behind in an instant.
Seeing the interior decoration clearly, Liao Tong couldn't help blowing a whistle.
"If it wasn't for this town to be too weird," he joked, "this would be a small fortune."
This Linyou set a house left by a distant relative who had never met before, covering a large area of ​​three floors. The interior decoration has cost a lot of money, not to mention the furniture, even the wooden boards and tiles on the floor are very valuable.
"and many more."
Jian Mingjia, who had been silently struggling with the content of this copy because of the shadow of her childhood, suddenly asked, "What do you think it is?"
The others looked in the direction she was pointing, suddenly dumb.
At the corner of the stairs, a small half-human puppet was leaning there. Its light green plastic eyes looked towards the door impartially-at them.
It was wearing a small suit and a red bow tie. Like the puppet in the shop, this one is used to perform ventriloquism at first glance. It looks weird with the movable chin and the bulging cheeks.
...Fuck! !
While seeing the whole picture of the puppet clearly, others didn't react, so Lin You rushed up to catch it.
The weight of this puppet is not to be considered light, otherwise, she directly opened the cabinet next to it and stuffed it in.
Jian Mingjia: "This, this, this will not be—"
"Well," Lin You said, "it should be."
Geng Qinghe still stayed under the visual impact of seeing the puppet, his face was almost green.
"Huh?" Liao Tong still couldn't figure it out. Seeing the reaction of several people was so dazed, "Just I don't know what's going on?"
"Have you seen "Dead Silence"?" Jian Mingjia asked, "The movie."
Liao Tong: "...No, I've heard of it."
"There was a ventriloquist named Mary Xiao in the last century." Lin You closed the cabinet door and explained, "Well the ventriloquist, he performed by claiming that his doll is alive and soulful."
"But she was accused by a little boy during a performance that she saw her mouth move and said she was a liar. Later, she kidnapped the boy and made him a puppet. After this incident was revealed, many small towns The residents rushed into her house, cut off her tongue and killed her."
"It's never over."
Jian Mingjia shuddered and added help.
"Mary Shaw's ghost has come back for revenge, possessing more than one hundred puppets from her lifetime. She wants to kill all the participants and their offspring by this."
"Then the one just now," she said, "it's her most famous puppet, named Billy-she used it to perform when she was exposed."
Although I don’t know how this small town became the dead city it is now, it’s definitely inseparable from Mary Shaw and her puppets.
Moreover, they are still here.
"Beware of the stare from Mary Shaw."
Lin You thought thoughtfully.
"She has no children, only dolls. If you see her, don't scream, otherwise she will open your mouth and tear your tongue."
Liao Tong: "Why is it so bloody?"
"This is a nursery rhyme spread in a small town in the movie." Lin You said, "In short, don't scream no matter what happens. This is Mary Shaw's condition for killing."
In other words, this copy will be out as long as it screams once.
To tear off the tongue is also a literal meaning. People killed by Mary Shaw look terrified without exception, their mouths are wide open, but the tongues inside are nowhere to be seen.
"This is human instinct..." Jian Mingjia cried, "Hey, I will try my best."
"We need to divide labor now."
Lin Yu shook her index finger.
"Separate people to inspect this house and look around."
Since it was the inheritance given to her by name, the clues in it must be the most.
Liao Tong: "Then this group..."
It stands to reason that it must be more dangerous outside, but it is different when there is Mary Shaw's puppet in the house. God knows what else is hidden here.
"Let's check here," Lin You pointed at herself and Jian Mingjia, "Let's go out and see."
"...Is it okay to just you two?" Liao Tong looked at the two girls.
"It's okay." Lin You waved her hand, "Anyway, just remember, don't scream."
Geng Qinghe reluctantly walked, turning around one step at a time.
He really wants to act with the boss.
Is it super safe?
Lin You only thought that she hadn't seen his eyes, and she still wanted the convenience of finding a body in the house for Jian Mingjia to make an identification.
The living room was connected to the kitchen. Lin You observed carefully and found that there was not much dust on the table and sofa. It looks like the owner of the house-her "distant relative" died not long ago.
"Hey, come and see you."
Jian Mingjia shouted beside the refrigerator, "I have food here."
Lin You walked over.
It really is.
The refrigerator is chilled, and there are all kinds of fruits and vegetables. It looks very fresh, the skin is shiny and moist, obviously it has not lost much water.
"It looks hungry," she said quietly, "I ate instant noodles at home at noon."
"Then dare not eat this."
Jian Mingjia shrugged, "Who knows if any of those puppets have touched anything, it would be troublesome if it is added."
Lin You: "Why don't you go and see if there's in the trunk soon—"
Halfway through the conversation, both of them felt a gust of wind blowing.
It's not the air-conditioning coming from the refrigerator in front of you, but the temperature of the entire kitchen is faintly decreasing.
When she turned her head in unison, Jian Mingjia covered her mouth for fear of subconsciously screaming.
On the empty dining table just now, Billy, the puppet, who should have been well locked in the cabinet, sat there.
His plastic eyes seemed to be alive, he looked at Jian Mingjia slowly, and then slowly turned to Linyou. The movable wooden chin "clicked" and dropped, and his mouth grew wide, as if he was grinning with a very malicious smile.
It opened its mouth in a slightly dry and sharp voice.
"you--"
Marionette only had time to say this word.
Lin You glanced at the refrigerator and grabbed a handful directly from it.
She strode forward, and in the gap where neither Jian Mingjia nor Mary Shaw who was possessed by Billy could react, she broke the two small peppers she had caught and stuffed it into the big puppet. Mouth.
She also helped close her chin intimately.
Billy:...
Five seconds passed.
Billy:..................
Ten seconds passed.
The puppet jumped up from the dining table on the spot, and plunged straight into the pool.